ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,720, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for multimodal layout designs of digital publications" was invented by Ning Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chia-Chih Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zeyuan Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Caiming Xiong (Menlo Park, Calif.), Juan Carlos Niebles Duque (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ran Xu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Rui Meng (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for multimodal layout generations for digital publications. The system may receive as inputs, a background image, one or more foreground texts, ...